1947 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.
- Landfall literary magazine is founded in New Zealand (now that country's oldest literary journal)
[edit] Works published
[edit] United Kingdom
- Kingsley Amis, Bright November
- Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter
- Louis MacNeice, The Dark Tower
- Stephen Spender, Poems of Dedication
[edit] United States
- W. H. Auden, "The Age of Anxiety" Anglo-American poet
- Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
- August Derleth, editor, Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre
- Richard Eberhart, Burr Oaks, including "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"
- Weldon Kees, The Fall of Magicians (his second book of poetry)
- Howard Nemerov, The Image of the Law
- Richard Wilbur, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, New York: Reynal and Hitchcock
- Louis Zukofsky begins writing Bottom: on Shakespeare, a long work of literary philosophy
[edit] Other
- Paul Hiebert, Sara Binks, "the sweet songstess of Saskatchewan", Canadian
- Giorgos Seferis, Κίχλη ("The Thrush"), Greek
- Jyotsna Shukla, Azadinan Geeto, Indian poet writing in Gujarati[1]
- John Sutherland, editor, Other Canadian's: An Anthology of the New Poetry in Canada, 1940-1946 (First Statement Press, 1947), anthology[2]
[edit] Awards and honors
- Frost Medal: Gustav Davidson
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Lowell appointed this year.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Ridgely Torrence
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 2 – Ai, born "Florence Anthony", an American poet who legally changed her name
- April 13 – Rae Armantrout, American poet
- May 13 – Sukanta Bhattacharya (died 1947), Bengali
- May 23 – Jane Kenyon, American poet and translator (died 1995)
- July 25 – Leslie Scalapino, American poet
- August 8 – Alurista (nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia), American Chicano poet and activist
- November 13 – John Steffler, Canadian poet and novelist
- December 26 – Liz Lochhead Scottish poet and dramatist
- Date not known:
- Michael Casey, American
- Cheryl Clarke, American poet and academic
- Reginald Gibbons, American
- Yusef Komunyakaa, American poet, academic and recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Al Moritz
- Molly Peacock, American poet of the New Formalist school and nonfiction writer
- Bin Ramke, American
- Michael Schmidt, English poet, academic, founder, editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press and founder of PN Review
- Robert B. Shaw, American
- Penelope Shuttle, British poet
- Charlie Smith
- Rosemary Sullivan, Canadian poet, biographer, and anthologist
- Robert Wells (poet), British poet
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- December 19 – Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian poet and writer
- Date not known:
- Anna Wickham, British poet
- Richard Le Gallienne, English writer and poet
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "One Zero Zero A Virtual Library of English Canadian Small Press 1945 - 2044" at the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art website, accessed April 23, 2008
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